Download or read book Poetry, Oratory, and the Politics of Public Speech in Milton, with Special References to Samson Agonistes written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probing issues of gender and genre, in particular romance, the thesis examines the problematisation of rhetoric and the figure of the orator under the political and historical pressures of the time, to investigate Milton's dramatisation of the beneficent and malign forms and uses of oratory.